beer stick

noun

Definitions

  1. A short, spicy, cured meat sausage.

    • To dry beer sticks in conventional oven, add 1 teaspoon liquid smoke flavoring to meat mixture.
    • We load a few more supplies that will be beneficial for processing: large heavy plastic bags, twisties, and my seasonings for making sausage, brats, polish, and beer sticks.
    • Locally made ham sausage, koubasa, farmers' sausage, garlic coil, bison smokies, venison bratwurst and beer sticks; Spanish chorizo, Lebanese lamb kebabs, French merguez and Balkan cévapčići.
  2. A beer flight.

    • There were a few regulars amongst them who came every day for lunch (a meat pie with tomato and barbeque sauce, a hamburger, two vanilla slices and a beer stick was a typical order) .
    • A beer stick (£10) gets you six 1/3-pint glasses of different draft beers; great for a group.
    • Lorin cracked another beer stick and passed it around. It tasted smoky and acrid and it was like the first beer Flint had ever drunk.
  3. A device for tapping into a keg of beer.

    • Baron got behind the bar, moved to the sole beer stick, and drew Clint a mug.
    • […] behind the beer-sticks and the bottles, and even the cans of Budweiser and Ströhs may have had a swipe of the rag.
    • Under the grime, Colin could make out the familiar images of Davey Grogan's grandfather and great-grandfather, proud men dressed in white aprons and bow ties, posing behind the beer stick and with horse-drawn beer delivery wagons.
  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. A stick that has been impregnated with wild yeasts, used by Vikings to aid the…

      A stick that has been impregnated with wild yeasts, used by Vikings to aid the fermentation of beer.

      • […] beer stick, almost a magic wand in ancient brewing, that survives today in the production of African sorghum beer and kvass in parts of Scandinavia.
      • So even well into the Medieval era, fermentation was a mystical process. Vikings, for example, kept a "beer stick” that would kickstart fermentation by exposing wort to its accumulated yeast microbes.
    2. A thin straightedge used to cut the top of the foam of a glass of beer.

      • The bands at 580 cm², (PhSiCl₂) and at 510 cm², (Ph_(2Si)(OH)₂) were measured using a "beer stick", a log ruler, by placing infinity on I₀ and measuring the peaks by the baseline technique.
      • He wiped off the foam with a beer stick which resembled a white ruler, and set the goblet down in front of Tom.

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